to show. Causes: While there isn’t one definite cause for Social Anxiety there has been several studies that show that it can be caused by three reasons: A Small Structure in the brain called Amygdala which is believed to be the central site in the brain that controls fear responses. An overactive Amygdala can cause Social Anxiety. Recent Animal Study suggests that it can be a part of human genes and can be
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White supremacy is an ideology that regards those of European descent to be superior to other races. In terms of the ingroup bias‚ this is an understandable thought to a certain extent. It follows Tajfel’s social identity theory in that white supremacists discriminate against people of color to positively enhance their own characteristics. After all‚ according to Sapolsky‚ it is human nature to root for those like yourself. But the racist ideology takes a dark turn when feelings of hatred and actions
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I agree with ‘Henry Clay’ quote because you’re making statement or statistics about someone that you haven’t know much about. You cannot judge someone based on what you have seen or maybe what you even may have heard. This idea connects to our unit question: Do We Have the Right to Judge Other People? Our unit question connects to our essay topic by telling us that we should not have the right to judge others by what we see or read. We don’t always have the right to judge someone that we haven’t
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Sleep Paralysis I’m lying on the bed. If you come in now‚ you’ll think I’m sleeping. But I see you. Even though my eyelids seem closed‚ they swirl slightly. They are the only parts of me that I can move. I am fully aware of it‚ but I cannot tell you: my body is completely frozen. All are paralyzed during sleep (REM)‚ sleep stage where sleep occurs. If we were not paralyzed‚ we would realize our dreams by endangering ourselves and our sleeping companions. But sometimes‚ especially when sleep patterns
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The amygdala is located in the limbic system‚ which is the part of the brain that controls our basic emotions and also drives our instincts. As with ARAS levels of arousal‚ the level of emotional arousal varies from one person to the next. The lower the threshold
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In this article‚ it studies the abnormal amygdala function. The article explores eight high- functioning subject with four different experiments: (1) Discriminating the intensity of facial emotion‚ (2) Recognition of Basic Emotions from Facial Expressions‚ (3) Social Judgment of the Faces and‚ (4)
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safety and efficacy of this treatment. First‚ Oehen et al. (2013) briefly outlined a current neurocircuitry model for PTSD. Oehen et al. (2013) stated that individuals with PTSD experience exaggerated and uncontrolled fear responses in the amygdala‚ as a result of the individual experiencing trauma specific stimuli. In addition‚ Oehen et al. (2013) stated there is a deficient
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Meagan Washington Psyc 300 MW 10:30 a.m. Why Does My Child Keep Correcting Me? Don’t judge on what is not understood; yet take the time to understand. The article titled “Why Does My Child Keep Correcting Me” is about parents who have to deal with the fact that their children may have Aspergers Syndrome
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nucleus accumbens‚ amygdala‚ sensory cortex‚ auditory cortex‚ hippocampus‚ visual cortex‚ and the cerebellum. “The four major parts in our brain that help us register music are‚ motor cortex‚ auditory cortex‚ nucleus accumbens‚ and the amygdala” (Cooper). The motor cortex is in charge of movement; foot tapping‚ dancing‚ and playing an instrument. The auditory cortex evaluates our first perception of the sounds and analysis of tones we are listening to. The nucleus accumbens and amygdala are our emotional
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Sahan Ratnayake Development of Language and its influence on self-awarness‚ personal memory‚ and higher emotion. Language is defined as the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract. Language is purely a human concept. Though it is used by many animals on the planet‚ no other animal uses language to the extent or complexity as humans do. This is in part to the larger brain size of humans as opposed to animals. Our closest animal relative‚ the chimpanzee‚ has a brain
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